Whatever you do, don't infect yourself! In young cultures "71 

 you will find the amoebae motile; in old ones, most of them are 

 in various stages of encystment. These keep their vitality for 

 months without transplantation. 



When the cultures arrived, I had resigned my university 

 place and entered private practice, on which account Wherry's 

 enthralling suggestions to me came to naught. Later (1914) 

 he himself returned to the subject. October 1, 1904, Wherry 

 wrote as follows: 



I returned [from Culion] last week. We had a nice ten-day 

 trip on the Balabac, a coast guard steamer. Our party con- 

 sisted of Mr Wooster, secretary of the interior or the czar of 

 the Philippines, Major Carter, commissioner of Public Health, 

 Mr McCaskey, chief of the Mining Bureau, Mr Miller, a U 

 of California man and one of Fischer's friends who is acting 

 chief of the Ethnological survey, and myself. Major Carter was 

 sick with malaria. The rest of us had a good time. The Cala- 

 mianes Islands are beautiful. Culion, Coron, and Busuanga are 

 the larger ones and these are surrounded by thousands of 

 smaller ones and by rocks and coral reefs. We spent most of 

 the time at Culion. There was nothing doing in the line of 

 cattle diseases so I had little to do. I examined quite a number 

 of people for malaria with negative results but found amoebae 

 in the drinking water. The leper colony is to be on a point 

 which runs into the Bay, a beautiful spot. Dr De Mey, the 

 superintendent, has done much to improve the place. The 

 Government has bought up all titled land and removed the 

 inhabitants except for some aborigines, Tagbanua, whom they 

 can't catch. Game abounds on the island — wild carabao, deer, 

 hogs and birds. I would like to spend a vacation there. I had 

 to go around the island to the stock farm at Halsey Harbor. 

 A typhoon was blowing and we had to run in the trough of 

 the waves; and I got sick! [Wherry was a born sailor.] On the 

 way home we harbored on the northeast coast of Busuanga. 

 We found a nice coral beach and I went swimming with the 

 intention of getting some coral. One dive was enough! I was 

 alone, and when I got down among the slime, polyps and 

 hydromedusae, I couldn't get back to the surface soon enough. 

 So I went ashore and tried to buy a baby from one of the 



